How can I check if a specific Vector3 value exists within an Vector3 array?

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The only error I have is in searching if a value is found within the array vector3
I would also like to know how to initialize a vector3 array

    var Positions :[] vector3 = array{}
    Words: []string =array{"hola", "pedro"}
    var TestA: []int = array{3,4,3,3,3}
    
    Test():void=
        #string
        NewWord: string = "hola"
        if(IndexString:=Words.Find[NewWord]){}
        #int
        if(IndexInt:=TestA.Find[3]){}
        #vector3
        newVector: vector3 = vector3{X:=0.0,Y:=0.0,Z:=0.0}
        if(IndexPosition:=Positions.Find[newVector]){}

#error: This function parameter expects a value of type tuple([]comparable,tuple(),comparable), but this argument is an incompatible value of type tuple([]vector3,tuple(),vector3).
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Vector3 are not comparable and you can’t implement your own comparable type, either you wrap it up inside a class (which is comparable) or you convert the vector3 to a string, you could also compare each value (X,Y,Z) with its int value.

Basically, string, class and int are comparable types so use those instead

3

If it’s not too much trouble, could you show me how do I wrap it up inside a class?

4

It’s situational, you’d need to store the wrapped vectors somewhere, but something like this works

wrapped_vector := class<unique>:
    Value: vector3

# ...

MyWrapper := wrapped_vector{Value := NewVector}
MyWrapper2 := wrapped_vector{Value := NewVector2}

if(MyWrapper = MyWrapper):
    Print("Succeeds")

if(MyWraper = MyWrapper2):
    Print("Fails")
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Last question: In your experience, which would you recommend using, Array or Map? I understand how both work, but I would like to know why you would use one over the other and in what situations it is advisable to use an Array or a Map.

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Depends, I’m usually using maps if I need to use .Find[] on an array at some point, indexing makes it better. I don’t know how to explain it better though, use array and when you can’t do what you want with them, use maps